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A Posteriori
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What does A Posteriori mean?
adjective
- Involving induction of theories from facts.
- Of a constructed language, Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.
adverb
- In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
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Inasmuch as reliable observations, not put together a posteriori, are lacking, nothing exact can be said about them.
Yet, strictly speaking—and the remark applies to ancient physics generally—this high a priori road was based upon a posteriori grounds.
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Induction, a posteriori, would have brought phrenology to admit, as an innate and primitive principle of human action, a paradoxical something, which we may call perverseness, for want of a more characteristic term.
Social economy, on the contrary, to which no a posteriori investigation could reveal directly the law of proportionality of values, can grasp it in the very force which produces it, and which it is time to announce.